The main theme of the research group is to capture and to (re-)synthesize the real world using commodity hardware. It includes the modeling of the human body, tracking, as well as the reconstruction and interaction with the environment. The digitization is needed for various applications in AR/VR as well as in movie (post-)production. Teleconferencing and working in VR is of high interest for many companies ranging from social media platforms to car manufacturer. It enables the remote interaction in VR, e.g., the inspection of 3D content like CAD models or scans from real objects. A realistic reproduction of appearances and motions is key for such applications. Capturing natural motions and expressions as well as the photorealistic reproduction of images under novel views are challenging. With the rise of deep learning methods and, especially, neural rendering, we see immense progress to succeed in these challenges. The goal is to develop methods for AI-based image synthesis of humans, the underlying representation of appearance, geometry and motion to allow for explicit and implicit control over the synthesis process.